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  1. The guestsVer letra 6:39

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    One by one, the guests arrive
    The guests are coming through
    The open-hearted many
    The broken-hearted few
    And no one knows where the night is going
    And no one knows why the wine is flowing
    Oh love I need you
    I need you
    I need you
    I need you
    Oh I need you now
    And those who dance, begin to dance
    Those who weep begin
    And "Welcome, welcome" cries a voice
    "Let all my guests come in."
    And no one knows where the night is going
    And all go stumbling through that house
    in lonely secrecy
    Saying "Do reveal yourself"
    or "Why has thou forsaken me?"
    And no one knows where the night is going
    All at once the torches flare
    The inner door flies open
    One by one they enter there
    In every style of passion
    And no one knows where the night is going
    And here they take their sweet repast
    While house and grounds dissolve
    And one by one the guests are cast
    Beyond the garden wall
    And no one knows where the night is going
    Those who dance, begin to dance
    Those who weep begin
    Those who earnestly are lost
    Are lost and lost again
    And no one knows where the night is going
    One by the guests arrive
    The guests are coming through
    The broken-hearted many
    The open-hearted few
    And no one knows where the night is going

  2. Humbled in loveVer letra 5:15

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    letra de Humbled in love

    Do you remember all of those pledges
    That we pledged in the passionate night
    Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges
    Like moths on a still yellow light
    No penance serves to renew them
    No massive transfusions of trust
    Why not even revenge can undo them
    So twisted these vows and so crushed
    And you say you've been humbled in love
    Cut down in your love
    Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
    Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
    Who kneels there as deeply as thee
    Children have takes these pledges
    They have ferried them out of the past
    Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges
    Where love must go hiding at last
    And here where there is no description
    Oh here in the moment at hand
    No sinner need rise up forgiven
    No victim need limp to the stand
    And you say you've been humbled in love
    And look dear heart, look at the virgin
    Look how she welcomes him into her gown
    Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour
    Dissolves like a star falling down
    Why trade this vision for desire
    When you may have them both
    You will never see a man this naked
    I will never hold a woman this close
    And you say you've been humbled in love

  3. The windowVer letra 5:55

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    letra de The window

    Why do you stand by the window
    Abandoned to beauty and pride
    The thorn of the night in your bosom
    The spear of the age in your side
    Lost in the rages of fragrance
    Lost in the rags of remorse
    Lost in the waves of a sickness
    That loosens the high silver nerves
    Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love
    Oh tangle of matter and ghost
    Oh darling of angels, demons and saints
    And the whole broken-hearted host
    Gentle this soul
    And come forth from the cloud of unknowing
    And kiss the cheek of the moon
    The New Jerusalem glowing
    Why tarry all night in the ruin
    And leave no word of discomfort
    And leave no observer to mourn
    But climb on your tears and be silent
    Like a rose on its ladder of thorns
    Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love
    Then lay your rose on the fire
    The fire give up to the sun
    The sun give over to splendour
    In the arms of the high holy one
    For the holy one dreams of a letter
    Dreams of a letter's death
    Oh bless thee continuous stutter
    Of the word being made into flesh
    Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love
    Gentle this soul

  4. Came so far for beautyVer letra 4:03

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    letra de Came so far for beauty

    I came so far for beauty
    I left so much behind
    My patience and my family
    My masterpiece unsigned
    I thought I'd be rewarded
    For such a lonely choice
    And surely she would answer
    To such a very hopeless voice
    I practiced all my sainthood
    I gave to one and all
    But the rumors of my virtue
    They moved her not at all
    I changed my style to silver
    I changed my clothed to black
    And where I would surrender
    Now I would attack
    I stormed the old casino
    For the money and the flesh
    And I myself decided
    What was rotten and what was fresh
    And men to do my bidding
    And broken bones to teach
    The value of my pardon
    The shadow of my reach
    But no, I could not touch her
    With such a heavy hand
    Her star beyond my order
    Her nakedness unmanned
    I came so far for beauty
    I left so much behind
    My patience and my family
    My masterpiece unsigned

  5. Came so far for beautyVer letra 4:03

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    letra de Came so far for beauty

    I came so far for beauty
    I left so much behind
    My patience and my family
    My masterpiece unsigned
    I thought I'd be rewarded
    For such a lonely choice
    And surely she would answer
    To such a very hopeless voice
    I practiced all my sainthood
    I gave to one and all
    But the rumors of my virtue
    They moved her not at all
    I changed my style to silver
    I changed my clothed to black
    And where I would surrender
    Now I would attack
    I stormed the old casino
    For the money and the flesh
    And I myself decided
    What was rotten and what was fresh
    And men to do my bidding
    And broken bones to teach
    The value of my pardon
    The shadow of my reach
    But no, I could not touch her
    With such a heavy hand
    Her star beyond my order
    Her nakedness unmanned
    I came so far for beauty
    I left so much behind
    My patience and my family
    My masterpiece unsigned

  6. The lost CanadianVer letra

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    Un Canadien Errant (A wandering Canadian,)
    Banni de ses foyers, (banned from his hearths,)
    Parcourait en pleurant (travelled while crying)
    Des pays etrangers. (in foreign lands.)
    Parcourait en pleurant (travelled while crying)
    Des pays etrangers. (in foreign lands.)
    Un jour, triste et pensif, (One day, sad and pensive,)
    Assis au bord des flots, (sitting by the flowing waters,)
    Au courant fugitif (to the fleeing current)
    Il adressa ces mots: (he addressed these words:)
    Au courant fugitif (to the fleeing current)
    Il adressa ces mots: (he addressed these words:)
    "Si tu vois mon pays, (If you see my country,)
    Mon pays malheureux, (my unhappy country,)
    Va dire a mes amis (go tell my friends)
    Que je me souviens d'eux. (that I remember them.)
    Va dire a mes amis (go tell my friends)
    Que je me souviens d'eux. (that I remember them.)
    O jours si pleins d'appas, (O days so full of charms,)
    Vous etes disparus... (you have vanished...)
    Et ma patrie, helas! (And my native land, alas!)
    Je ne la verrai plus. (I will see it no more.)
    Et ma patrie, helas! (And my native land, alas!)
    Je ne la verrai plus. (I will see it no more.)

  7. The traitorVer letra 6:14

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    letra de The traitor

    Now the Swan it floated on the English river
    Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide
    A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer
    And the judges watched us from the other side
    I told my mother "Mother I must leave you
    Preserve my room but do not shed a tear
    Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
    It was half my fault and half the atmosphere"
    But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
    And the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame
    She said at last I was her finest lover
    And if she withered I would be to blame
    The judges said you missed it by a fraction
    Rise up and brace your troops for the attack
    Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
    Oh see the men of action falling back
    But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
    I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
    My falsity had stung me like a hornet
    The poison sank and it paralyzed my will
    I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
    That they had been deserted from above
    So on battlefields from here to Barcelona
    I'm listed with the enemies of love
    And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
    Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
    You can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping
    Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan"
    So daily I renew my idle duty
    I touch her here and there, I know my place
    I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
    And people call me traitor to my face

  8. Our lady of solitudeVer letra 3:13

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    letra de Our lady of solitude

    All summer long she touched me
    She gathered in my soul
    From many a thorn, from many thickets
    Her fingers, like a weaver's
    Quick and cool
    And the light came from her body
    And the night went through her grace
    All summer long she touched me
    And I knew her, I knew her
    Face to face
    And her dress was blue and silver
    And her words were few and small
    She is the vessel of the whole wide world
    Mistress, oh mistress, of us all
    Dearly dead; Queen of Solitude
    I thank you with my heart
    for keeping me so close to thee
    while so many, oh so many, stood apart
    And the light came from her body
    And the night went through her grace
    All summer long she touched me
    I knew her, I knew her
    Face to face

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  10. The smokey lifeVer letra 5:18

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    letra de The smokey life

    I've never seen your eyes so wide
    I've never seen your appetite quite this occupied
    Elsewhere is your feast of love
    I know where long ago we agreed to keep it light
    So lets be married one more night
    It's light, light enough
    To let it go
    It's light enough to let it go
    Remember when the scenery started fading
    I held you til you learned to walk on air
    So don't look down the ground is gone,
    there's no one waiting anyway
    The Smoky Life is practiced
    Everywhere
    So set your restless heart at ease
    Take a lesson from these Autumn leaves
    They waste no time waiting for the snow
    Don't argue now you'll be late
    There is nothing to investigate
    It's light enough, light enough
    To let it go
    Light enough to let it go
    Remember when the scenery started fading
    I held you til you learned to walk on air
    So don't look down the ground is gone,
    there's no one waiting anyway
    The Smoky Life is practiced everywhere
    Come on back if the moment lends
    You can look up all my very closest friends
    Light, light enough
    To let it go
    It's light enough to let it go

  11. Ballad of the absent mareVer letra 6:21

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    Say a prayer for the cowboy
    His mare's run away
    And he'll walk til he finds her
    His darling, his stray
    But the river's in flood
    And the roads are awash
    And the bridges break up
    In the panic of loss.
    And there's nothing to follow
    There's nowhere to go
    She's gone like the summer
    Gone like the snow
    And the crickets are breaking
    His heart with their song
    As the day caves in
    And the night is all wrong
    Did he dream, was it she
    Who went galloping past
    And bent down the fern
    Broke open the grass
    And printed the mud with
    The iron and the gold
    That he nailed to her feet
    When he was the lord
    And although she goes grazing
    A minute away
    He tracks her all night
    He tracks her all day
    Oh blind to her presence
    Except to compare
    His injury here
    With her punishment there
    Then at home on a branch
    In the highest tree
    A songbird sings out
    So suddenly
    Ah the sun is warm
    And the soft winds ride
    On the willow trees
    By the river side
    Oh the world is sweet
    The world is wide
    And she's there where
    The light and the darkness divide
    And the steam's coming off her
    She's huge and she's shy
    And she steps on the moon
    When she paws at the sky
    And she comes to his hand
    But she's not really tame
    She longs to be lost
    He longs for the same
    And she'll bolt and she'll plunge
    Through the first open pass
    To roll and to feed
    In the sweet mountain grass
    Or she'll make a break
    For the high plateau
    Where there's nothing above
    And there's nothing below
    And it's time for the burden
    It's time for the whip
    Will she walk through the flame
    Can he shoot from the hip
    So he binds himself
    To the galloping mare
    And she binds herself
    To the rider there
    And there is no space
    But there's left and right
    And there is no time
    But there's day and night
    And he leans on her neck
    And he whispers low
    "Whither thou goest
    I will go"
    And they turn as one
    And they head for the plain
    No need for the whip
    Ah, no need for the rein
    Now the clasp of this union
    Who fastens it tight?
    Who snaps it asunder
    The very next night
    Some say the rider
    Some say the mare
    Or that love's like the smoke
    Beyond all repair
    But my darling says
    "Leonard, just let it go by
    That old silhouette
    On the great western sky"
    So I pick out a tune
    And they move right along
    And they're gone like the smoke
    And they're gone like this song

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